{"id":6193,"date":"2021-03-04T15:15:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T15:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/?p=6193"},"modified":"2021-03-04T15:17:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T15:17:37","slug":"idol-crowds-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/idol-crowds-review\/","title":{"rendered":"John Wayne Movie Review – Idol of the Crowds 1936"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Dir:<\/strong> Arthur Lubin, b\/w, 60m In a world where characters with names such as Swifty, Hank and Spike shout insults at each other whilst sitting on the edge of a desk chewing on a cigar like characters from \u201cThe Front Page\u201d, the manager of the New York Panthers ice hockey team sends two of his scouts, Kelly and Garber, played by Robert Hopton and Frank Otto, to go find some fresh blood for his ailing team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Before you know it they\u2019re on their way to Metonsic \u201cThe fastest growing town in Northern Maine\u201d. They\u2019re on the lookout for former members of a legendary hockey team called the Crushers, only to discover that most of them have been put out to pasture whilst one poor soul now only has one leg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Their tobacco-spitting chauffeur in Metonsic, played in a wonderful cameo by Clem Bevans, tells the scouts the best hockey player in the area is none other than chicken farmer John Hansen, played by John Wayne, who was not only in the Crushers, he was the Crusher. John Wayne as a hockey-playing chicken farmer. This I\u2019ve really got to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cast:<\/strong> John Wayne, Sheila Bromley, Billy Burrud, Russell Hopton, Huntley Gordon, Charles Brokaw<\/p>\n\n\n\n